Michael Thomas misses practice with ankle injury

The Saints will face one of the only teams to beat them this year, and they may not have receiver Michael Thomas at full strength.

Thomas missed practice on Wednesday with an ankle injury.

Despite having 1,120 receiving yards on the season, Thomas added only 40 in last week’s loss to the Cowboys. He hasn’t registered 100 receiving yards in a game since exploding for 211 against the Rams on November 4.

The Saints got some good news on Wednesday with the return to practice of tackle Terron Armstead, who hasn’t played since a November 11 blowout win over the Bengals. He was limited despite a lingering pectoral injury.

Also limited was guard Ryan Ramczyk, who suffered a shoulder injury against the Cowboys. Defensive tackle David Onyemata (hip) also was limited, and fullback Zach Line fully participated despite a concussion.

Geez people the Patriots had a 24 point lapse against a mediocre 3rd place team in their respective division team. You’re talking about the Saints losing by 3 points on the road coming off 3 game swing in 11 days? For all of those talking about now there’s a “blueprint” on how to stop the Saints, keep wishing. I blame this loss more on Payton’s all of a sudden lack of creativity and vanilla gameplan (see fourth down goal line Kamara run) than the Cowboys dominance. He should have also taken the points by kicking the FG which he should have had more faith and trust in his rapidly improving defense.